Only 50% of Nairobi's water supply actually reaches the customer!The other half is lost through leakages and illegal connections
2% of the household batteries in the UK are collected for recycling. Councils involved need to step up their efforts to reach their target which is 25% by 2012 and 45% by 2016.
Pesticide usage worldwide has quadrupled over the last 40 years, from an average of 0.5 Kg per hectare in 1961 To 2kg per hectare in 2004!
It is estimated that up to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide each year, more than one million per minute.*
For every 2000 pounds of paper (1 ton) recycled, we save 7,000 gallons of pure water.
The snow and ice in The Eastern Himalayas have shrunk by an astonishing 30% since the 1970s!
Webminer is an interesting event for ‘http hi5rz’. This event has several levels with varied complexities. The tasks in each level are based on intelligent internet browsing. The tasks include ‘Message decoding from Pictures obtained on browsing’, ‘extracting useful information from absurd sentences’ and many more interesting variants.
General Rules: · A team can have 3 participants at the maximum. · Blogs and mails will not be provided access during the event. · The time limit for the event is 2 Hrs.
